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Our Grand Coulee Dam Area Visitors Guide online site has the map of activities for Saturday's Koulee Kids Fest, at which some lucky kid will win an iPod Touch. Check it out here: h...

Lake Roosevelt High School’s class of 2013 went through commencement exercises Saturday afternoon with speeches, songs, awards and scholarship announcements. School board director Ted Piccalo...

If anyone could figure the odds of an international finance engineer ending up in Grand Coulee running a quilting business, Marlene Oddie could. She’s opening her KISSed Quilts business at 12:15...

Kids, there’s a special day for you this Saturday, June 15. It’s the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce’s Koulee Kids Fest. Details and a map are available to help you plan your day, inside this week’s Star newspaper. A host of prizes...

Proctor retiring Longtime teacher and coach Gordon Proctor will be honored tonight, beginning at 5:30, for his 35 years with the Grand Coulee Dam School District. Proctor has been at Lake Roosevelt High School since 1978, and retires at the end of th...

Those tomato seeds that went into space back in the 1990s are still working their wonders here in the coulee. Nancy Carlson, teacher, now retired, obtained seeds from NASA and used them as a science...

Chamber to Meet at Pepper Jack’s The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will be meeting at Pepper Jack’s at noon on Thursday, June 13 . The program will be presented by Lucas Bird and his mom Sjana who will be talking about Lucas’...

The Grand Coulee Dam School District last week announced the sponsorship of a Simplified Summer Food Program for Children. Meals will be made available at no charge to attending children 18 years of age and younger. Meals will be served at Center...

The school board approved hiring four new teachers at its special meeting last Wednesday night. Matt Simpson of Brookings, Ore., was hired as a physical education/weight training teacher at Lake Roosevelt High School. Simpson was also hired as...

Grand Coulee Police 5/27 - Police recovered a stolen mountain bike taken from a resident at E. Coulee Blvd., in Electric City. An Electric City resident was seen riding the bike and is being charged with being in possession of stolen material. 6/3 -...

Lincoln County Public Works NOTICE Starting on June 18, 2013, the Old Coulee Road, located in Lincoln County, will be closed for construction from M.P. 13.96 (at the Grant County Line) to M.P,. 12.15, (250’ west of the Bagdad Intersection). Please...

Commissioner: Golf course not closing “It is not our intention to close the golf course in July,” O. J. Scharbach said Friday at The Star. “I’ve heard this three or four times. I don’t know who is starting that stuff.” The chairman of...

An Electric City man’s home burned Tuesday, keeping firefighters working for hours on the stubborn blaze that started just after noon. The residence of Michael Lowry, at 214 2nd Street, overlooks...

Kids, circle Saturday, June 15, on your calendar for Koulee Kids Day events in the coulee. It’s the eighth annual event for kids and a full schedule with times will be included in next week’s Star newspaper. A number of businesses are...

A scrimmage featuring roller derby teams from around the region is planned for July 5 as a means of introducing the community to the sport, said Grand Coulee Derby Dames team leader Chick Norris,...

The Bureau of Reclamation’s Pacific Northwest Region, along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Chelan County Public Utility District, were honored April 23 at the 2013 National Hydropower Association annual conference in Washington, D.C. The...

Grand Coulee 5/27 - A Keller man known to have a suspended license was seen exiting a vehicle at a service station. At first he denied being the driver, but then changed his response saying, “Yeah, I’m revoked first.” His vehicle was impounded...

Brilliant Plan: “Grand Coulee Considers Compelling Cleanup,” front page article in the May 29th Star. I asked “our” mayor and “our” city council to enforce the city ordinances early in 2010, and then whole heartedly in 2012, not write...

Hello, my name is Emily Williams, host of Entertainment Tonight, and we are here today at the social event of the decade. It’s Lake Roosevelt High School’s class of 2013 30-year reunion, possibly the greatest class in the history of high school...

Ten Years Ago A group working to bring a swimming pool back to the area has been scrambling recently to raise money for the cost of running an election. Coulee Area Recreation Effort Chair Sean Hess, who attended the Electric City and Coulee Dam...

Chamber to Meet at Pepper Jack’s The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will be meeting at Pepper Jack’s at noon on Thursday, June 6. Grant County Mosquito District 2 to Meet Grant County Mosquito District 2 will hold its regular monthly...

Evelyn Doris Skorheim of Coulee Dam died of natural causes on May 3, 2013. She was 90 years old. Doris was born in Norton, North Dakota, on June 18, 1922. She was raised on the family farm and after h...

The Grand Coulee Dam School District’s Title I and Learning Assistance Programs (LAP) will have an annual parent meeting on Monday, June 10, at 5 p.m., in the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School Library. This meeting is for all parents/guardians of...

Members of Grand Coulee’s council would like to develop a city “cleanup of property” program like the one in the town of Coulee Dam. Councilmember David Tylor stated that’s there’s hardly a block in Grand Coulee that couldn’t stand some...

Unhealthy matters Grant County Health District reported a possible case of measles in the Grand Coulee Dam School District. The health district said it is working with school officials to investigate. The disease spreads easily from coughing and snee...

The general contractor building the new school complex is hauling some 22,000 cubic yards of sand from the Bureau of Reclamation’s giant sandpile for fill on the K-12 school project to bring the building site to grade, officials stated this week....

A full moon backs up brand new laser equipment that served up the first laser show of the season Saturday night, as people watch the delivery of crisp, colorful images on Grand Coulee Dam. The show...

I decided that at least once a week I would dig up a gem of a person in the Grand Coulee area and write about him or her, someone that might do pretty cool things or have an amazing heart that might...

Ten Years Ago Money flowed into Coulee Community Hospital at an all-time high in March as the hospital treated more patients than anticipated. “It indicates that the community shows confidence in us,” said CCH Administrator Mike Wiltermood. Next...

Kimberly Jo Graham (Ladwig/Harris) passed away on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12, 2013, in Nampa, Idaho. She was born to Allan and Alyce Graham on November 15, 1958, in Reno, Nev. She graduated from Lake Roosevelt High School in Coulee Dam in 1976....

Chamber to Meet at Siam Palace The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will be meeting, at Siam Palace at noon on Thursday, May 30. That evening at 5:30 p.m. a meeting will be held at Funzee’s to discuss Saturday Market. GCD Lions to Meet...

If you were out and about in any coulee towns this past Memorial Weekend, you probably noticed the car caravans, driving slowly up and down the streets but sometimes stopping abruptly where the crowds were gathering for - gasp! - yard sales. Yes, the...

Grand Coulee Police 5/20 - A barking dog brought police to Hill Avenue, where the officer told the dog’s owner that he needed to keep it from barking and keeping neighbors awake. 5/21 - Police recovered a vehicle stolen in Soap Lake, finding it at...

Dozens of local elected positions are among more than 3,000 in the state for which people interested in serving the public filed intentions to seek or keep office last week. Incumbents in Electric City fared best in primary election filings with no...

On behalf of the Friends of Rachel Clubs at Lake Roosevelt High School, Grand Coulee Dam Middle School and the students of Center Elementary I want to say thank you to the community members that...

Ten Years Ago The public has the chance to help determine what proposed playground changes will look like in Coulee Dam. The town council last week approved spending approximately $25,000 to purchase new playground equipment. A donation by General...

Jane Arlene Rice passed away Friday, May 17, 2013, at NCWH.  Jane was born September 17,1947, to Grace and Al Rice of Seaton’s Grove.  Jane is survived by sisters Elaine Witters of Okanogan, ...

Chamber to Meet at Siam Palace The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a noon meeting May 23, at Siam Palace. They will meet for a brief lunch and then walk to the Senior Center to view “Kissed Quilts’ “ quilts and to hear about...

Grand Coulee Police 5/12 - Police went to Coulee Medical Center where a man who had been brought there by Tribal Police on a drug-related issue refused help and signed himself out of the hospital. The man lingered in the waiting area and refused to...

Registration night for Summer Rocks and the SHARP Kids Middle School Summer Program is Thursday, May 23 from 4-6:30 p.m. at the Grand Coulee Dam School District Office. Space in each program is limited and enrollment will close when programs are...

Three science teams from Lake Roosevelt High School competed in the Imagine Tomorrow event at Washington State University in Pullman last weekend, bringing home cash and kudos for a big effort from a...

Center School could get a little crowded next fall. The district will have three first grades and three kindergarten classes as well as providing preschool for 3- to 5-year-olds, according to Superintendent Dennis Carlson. The district received word...

Colorama huge hit Despite the fact that new Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Manager Peggy Nevsimal broke a collarbone Friday night, which kept her from seeing the fruits of most of her work on the event, reviews have been largely positive....

Candidates for upcoming elections are filing for positions on school boards, city councils, hospital boards and some junior taxing districts this week. In early filings, three have filed for positions in Hospital District 6. These include two...

Ten Years Ago The possibility of bringing a swimming pool back into the Grand Coulee Dam area seems to be closer to reality after several county governments are encouraged by it. Sean Hess, chair of the Coulee Area Recreation Effort (CARE), and...

Chamber to Meet at Siam Palace The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday, May 16, at the Siam Palace beginning at noon. On the agenda is a recap of Colorama festivities. Lions to Meet The GCD Lions Club will hold its regular...

Lady Raider softball closed the 2013 regular season with a six-game losing streak that included last week's losses to Bridgeport and Liberty Bell. The Lady Raiders played the Fillies for Senior Night...

Registration night for Summer Rocks and the SHARP Kids Middle School Summer Program is Thursday, May 23 from 4-6:30 p.m. at the Grand Coulee Dam School District Office. Space in each program is limited and enrollment will close when programs are...

[Editor’s note: Frankie will be reporting weekly on findings at local sales and culture right here. Let us know what you think, and don’t believe everything you read.] Detective Frankie D. here with what some shoppers might consider extremely...

Grand Coulee Police 4/29 - Cattle again broke through a fence and gained access to the golf course. Police asked golf course officials for a list of damages. - A woman reported a vacant house had a door ajar. An officer worked his way through...